How should journalists cover coronavirus preprint studies?
Monday, May 11, 2020 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
When a story in the Los Angeles Times recently claimed that the novel coronavirus behind COVID-19 had mutated into a more contagious version, it was quickly amplified by other outlets and stoked fears that the virus was becoming more dangerous. The problem is, that wasn’t necessarily true. Scientists quickly took to Twitter to point out the research paper the […]